The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is evaluating potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines to enable promising medicines to reach patients as soon as possible. It is also interacting with medicine developers and making use of real-world data to monitor the safety and effectiveness of medicines use...d in patients with COVID-19.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.28.20221143
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
Rev Méd Hondur, Vol 88, Núm 2, 202
All health workers involved in implementation of COVID-19 vaccination need to have adequate knowledge and skills in order to ensure safe and efficient COVID-19 vaccine administration. The COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers package is developed for frontline health workers in countries.... The package, developed in collaboration with UNICEF, consists of 6 modules, which include video lectures, quizzes, job aids, interactive exercises and downloadable presentations with the available information.
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MEDBOX – The Aid Library is an open-access online library aiming to increase the quality of health care worldwide. Quality assurance and accountability are important values in humanitarian action as well as healthcare settings, which receive growing attention by affected populations, health care w...orkers, humanitarian actors, donors and the public.
Videoclip Series "MEDBOX - The Aid Library" no.1
You can view different language versions: German, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
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In this video we show you how to search, browse or find the relevant documents and information in MEDBOX-The Aid Library. This video is part of a "How to use MEDBOX" video series.
MEDBOX -The Aid Library is an open-access online library aiming to increase the quality of health care worldwide.
Vid...eoclip Series "MEDBOX - The Aid Library" no.2
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In this video we briefly explain the different MEDBOX features: how to register and login; how to use MY MEDBOX to create your own library; how to keep myself up to date with My NEWS
Videoclip Series "MEDBOX- The Aid Library" no.3
In this video we explore the MEDBOX Toolboxes, a special and very popular features of the online library MEDBOX.
To cover selected topics in more detail, MEDBOX collects the most relevant documents and information into Toolboxes. The topics range from various humanitarian crises such as natural ha...zards, refugees & migrants, through epidemics and pandemics such as Ebola and Covid-19 to major global health topics such as HIV, TB, mental health or global health education.
Videoclip Series "MEDBOX - The Aid Library" no.4
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How concerned should we be about the new variants of SARS CoV 2 which cause COVID-19? Is it unusual for viruses to change and mutate? Do vaccines protect against these variants and what can you do to protect yourself? WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan explains in Science in 5
Why are experts concerned about COVID-19 and antibiotics? And what can you do about it? Learn about antibiotics and COVID-19 from WHO’s Dr Hanan Balkhy in Science in 5
Vatican lays out 20 points for a universal and fair destination of vaccines, for a fairer and healthier world
8 January 2021
Sequencing enabled the world to rapidly identify SARS-CoV-2 and develop diagnostic tests and other tools for outbreak management. Continued genome sequencing supports the monitoring of the disease’s spread and evolution of the virus. Accelerated integration of genome sequencing int...o the practices of the global health community is required if we want to be better prepared for the future threats. This document provides guidance for laboratories on maximizing the impact of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing now and other emerging pathogens in the future.
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COVAX is the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator
The ACT Accelerator is a ground-breaking global collaboration to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.
COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epide...mic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and WHO. Its aim is to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.
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Compte tenu des lacunes en matière d'infrastructures et de ressources, il convient d'envisager de recourir à la technologie pour la gestion à distance des soins de santé dispensés aux patients pendant cette période. Comme on peut le constater, même les pays disposant d'infrastructures et de r...essources de soins de santé plus avancées ont eu du mal à traiter les patients atteints de COVID-19 ou non pendant cette pandémie.
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Comment The Lancet Volume 397, ISSUE 10269, P72-74, January 09, 2021
Published:December 08, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32623-4